Apache Ant: Run ant without showing the target names

Question

Hi, When I run my build file, it always shows the target name.

For example, in my build file if I have targets A,B,C. Then on when I type the command "ant A", it shows

A:

How do I avoid displaying the A?

You help is very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance. Bakhtiyar Uddin

Answer 1

The command line switch is -q

$ ant -q A

Answer 2

You might also have a look at the following blog entry http://codefeed.com/blog/?p=82. The author provides some code for a custom task to set the loglevel in a build script. This way you can enable and disable log output for specific operations.

Answer 3

A few options:

• try -q for quiet mode
• try -emacs (not sure if this dumps the targets or not, but worth trying)
• write a custom logger